Imagining Mass Dictatorships

1. Introduction
Michael Schoenhals, Karin Sarsenov

2. The Constitution of a Reliable Self: Word for Word by Oleg Dorman and Lilianna Lungina
Karin Sarsenov

3. The Post-Communist Afterlife of Dissident Writers: The Case of Herta Müller
Anamaria Dutceac Segesten

4. Challenging the ‘Holocaust-Reflex’: Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness: A Novel
Anders Ohlsson

5. Ulrike and the War: World War II, Mass Dictatorship and Nazism in the Eyes of a German Girl
Bibi Jonsson

6. Through the Eyes of a Child: Childhood and Mass Dictatorship in Modern European Literature
Karin Nykvist

7. Is Fictional Literature Incapable of Imagining the Shoah?
Björn Larsson

8. Politics, Imagination and Everyday Life in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup
Seonjoo Park

9. Innocence by Association? Everyday Nazism on DVD
Mats Jönsson

10. The Good, the Bad and the Collaborators: Swedish World War II Guilt Redefined in Twenty-First-Century Crime Fiction?
Kerstin Bergman

11. Who Are ‘We’? The Dynamics of Consent and Coercion in Yi Mun-gu’s Our Neighbourhood
Shin Hyung-ki

12. Swedish Proletarians towards Freedom: Ideals of Participation as Propaganda in the Communist Children’s Press of the 1920s
Jimmy Vulovic

13. The Masses in Their Own Write (and Draw): A Heroes’ Register from the Great Cultural Revolution in Yunnan
Michael Schoenhals

14. Postscript
Naoki Sakai

Keywords: History, Modern History, Social History, Political History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History, Literature, general